Easter is an amazing opportunity for mission, especially in our increasingly secular society. Your church will no doubt be planning special events to celebrate Easter. We’d love to swing in behind you and the enclosed resources are aimed at helping you invite people to explore further its true meaning.

We’re offering an A5 leaflet which is designed as a flyer/tract exploring the meaning of Easter beyond the commercial emphasis on chocolate. We also have a more simple invitational postcard based on the One Solitary Life poem written by James Allen Francis. Both resources are designed for mass distribution through your community, or for use in special Easter outreach events, or for individuals to give or post to their friends. Obviously material of this nature will not contain every element and nuance of the Christian faith.

What we’ve put together has the aim of being a hook or an invitation to explore further. Many of Jesus’ stories in the public marketplace were like that. They keyed in to local understanding (or misunderstanding!) and sowed seeds of inquisitiveness that enticed people to find out more. We think the best place for people to do that “searching” and “finding out more” is a community of faith like yours, so we’ve designed these resources with the hope that they might point people in the direction of your church – especially at Easter time. The resources are not an end in themselves, but simply a tool to help people as they reach out, connect and invite others to explore more about Jesus this Ester.

Print Resources

1.  A5 Booklet/Tract

The text reads as follows:

Front cover: “Is chocolate all you’re getting this Easter.  There’s more you can get, and it may well meet your deepest longings.

Inside page 1:

Inside that hollow feeling? Despite the advances of technology and the amazing amount of stuff we can acquire and consume, the basic human condition is unchanged. The most important things in life aren’t things. Dig a little deeper in people and we all have a lot in common.  All of us are marked by core human longings.  when it comes to the tings that really matter, we all yearn after similar things.  The message of Easter speaks to these yearnings, it pints us to the source of life that meets our deepest human longings.  This Easter why not explore the man at the heart of Easter, Jesus, the Saviour of the world.

Inside page 2:

The Source Of Life

“I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full” Embarking on a journey of faith will enable you to take Jesus at his world and test if this is true in your life.  Through faith in Jesus we find the answers to our deepest human yearnings.  That’s something worth exploring.

Back page:

Easter is a great time to think about the things that really matter most in life, and a great time to explore what the dimension of faith can add to our lives.  A good starting point in a journey of faith would be to attend a special Easter service in your local area.  You’ll find everyday people celebrating the difference that Jesus makes to their lives.  don;t just settle for chocolate this Easter.

EASTER OUTREACH POSTCARD

 

One Solitary Life – Text

He was born in an obscure village

The child of a peasant woman

He grew up in another obscure village

Where he worked in a carpenter shop

Until he was thirty

 

He never wrote a book

He never held an office

He never went to college

He never visited a big city

He never travelled more than two hundred miles

From the place where he was born

He did none of the things

Usually associated with greatness

He had no credentials but himself

 

He was only thirty three

 

His friends ran away

One of them denied him

He was turned over to his enemies

And went through the mockery of a trial

He was nailed to a cross between two thieves

While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing

The only property he had on earth

When he was dead

He was laid in a borrowed grave

Through the pity of a friend

 

Nineteen centuries have come and gone

And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race

And the leader of mankind’s progress

All the armies that have ever marched

All the navies that have ever sailed

All the parliaments that have ever sat

All the kings that ever reigned put together

Have not affected the life of mankind on earth

As powerfully as that one solitary life.

Ordering & Overprinting

Both resources will have an overprinting feature.  You may wish to take advantage of this service or you can simply purchase the resource and place your own stickers or stamps on the space provided on the back of each resource.  Ordering information will be posted shortly, stay tuned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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